THE BOTANIC GARDEN A Newsletter for the Botanic Gardens of Australia and New Zealand – www.bganz.org.au Issue 32 – MARCH 2012 ISSN 1446-2044 Editorial Committee CONTENTS 1 Dr Philip Moors Director and Chief Executive, Royal Botanic Garden Melbourne President’s View. .2 Anne Duncan, BGANZ President Mr Alan Matchett Farewell Dr Philip Moors Team Leader/Curator, Dunedin Botanic Garden and BGANZ Farewell and Welcome. 3 Vice‑President (New Zealand) Brigitta Wimmer, Executive Officer Meet our new Executive Officer Eamonn Flanagan Mr Mark Fountain Deputy Director Collections The Botanic Gardens Education Network Australia and and Research, Royal Tasmanian New Zealand (BGEN) - Update. 4 Botanic Gardens Stephen Speer, Convenor Mr Dale Arvidsson Reports on Indigenous Gardens. 5 Curator, Mackay Regional Botanic When is a botanic garden collection ‘indigenous’? Gardens and BGANZ Vice‑President Mark Richardson, Botanical Consultant www.planningforplants.com.au
[email protected] (Australia) An Indigenous‑Experience Garden at the Wollongong Botanic Garden Managing Editor: Brigitta Wimmer Paul Tracey, Curator Wollongong Botanic Garden Recording Garlembila ‘Old Camp’ Story for the Future Graphic Designer: Siobhan Duffy S.McEntyre, North Coast Regional Botanic Garden, Coffs Harbour, NSW Past, Present, Future: an Indigenous Garden Getting in Touchwith its Roots Cover photo: Sandra Hodge, Curator, Long Island, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne A Gunya shelter within the Indigenous‑Experience Garden, The Red Centre Garden at the Australian National Botanic Gardens Craig Cosgrove, Assistant Director Assets and Development, ANBG Wollongong Botanic Gardens. The Alice Springs Desert Park 1996 to 2012 Scott Pullyblank, Curator Botany, Alice Springs Desert Park Reports from Botanic Gardens . 15 The theme of the July 2012 issue of The Australian Arid Lands Botanic Garden, Port Augusta, South Australia The Botanic Garden will be ‘Mature Geraldine Davies, Friends of the Australian Arid Lands Botanic Garden Inc.